It’s bad enough that Genji’s shurikens are smaller than an ant & travels slower than the next Hero/Map release, but it takes a whole AKM-Blade to reload while dealing body damage that can essentially be healed instantly by a Lucio without using AMP. It be more efficient if I ran back to spawn from the objective & switched to Doomfist. At least his primary auto reloads when doing other things & doesn’t require any sort of animation cancel to use properly.
Either speed up the reload time & change it to something like Doomfist where it reloads over time while doing something else or be like Hanzo or Sigma where it’s infinite but has downtime per shot. And instead of increasing the shuriken’s damage, why not give it a unique trait like passing through barriers. Aesthetic-wise, shurikens aren’t even suppose be to “primary” weapons & more of a distraction tool. And what better way to distract an opponent than some tiny pieces of metal poking you from afar.
For what? Because The opponent failed to strafe at all? He can’t spam Widow out at distances unless she allows him to. He does a whopping 84 damage per second with slow projectile travel speeds. Let’s not make the 28 damage, slow, small projectiles worse.
You’re set up with a single tiny crack of a sight line from way behind or in front of you, perhaps you’re a tank or even a Bastion, now that sight line is denied about as well as having another Widow in that spot, because of Genji m1-ing nonstop.
He denies too much through too far of sight lines in strange situations.
Then reposition. That’s your fault. We shouldn’t be nerfing the worst primary fire in the game because of such a specific situation. It’s also significantly easier to heal through that damage in comparison to a Widow, so Genji watching that sight line isn’t nearly as threatening.
Because what you’ll end up getting is Genji players spamming through choke points towards the center of enemy Rein’s barrier from as far behind their team as they want. Players wouldn’t need to flank or duel as Genji anymore; they’d just spend maybe 16 seconds farming ult and then go in to wipe the enemy team on the other side.
Being thrown by a literal cyborg ninja. You’re applying logic to the same game with Wrecking Ball. Being weird is not an excuse to nerf him. There’s practically no logical reason to nerf his primary fire.
I think Bastion being able to camp on top of a payload in a pirate ship composition is stupid. Is that a justification for a nerf? Say yes and I’ll throw hands right now
